Hi folks,



New guy here; just picked up the game a few days ago. I'm a big 4X fan and I am really enjoying this game so far.



Here's my question - how do you do recon on the AI opponents?? What I mean is - is there any way to get some notion of what direction to take my defences against a particular enemy? Or even vaguely what their level of technology is?



The only method I have found so far is to save my game, declare war, attack an enemy fleet, see what they shoot at me, and reload if I get slaughtered. I don't like doing this as it seems cheap - I just can't figure out how to keep from going into war/combat totally blind!



Any advice?



Thanks!

Well there is no way of doing so that I know of without either going into battle, or having the improvement that shows you the ships orbiting a sector.

I usually just build fighters that are alright at everything but excel at nothing so I can divulge later.

In the Diplomacy screen you can trade techs and it may show you some of their techs that you don't have

Nyarlonthep wrote:
In the Diplomacy screen you can trade techs and it may show you some of their techs that you don't have

Sounds similar to the old MOO2 method of scouting....